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Finish each training session with a thorough stretch for ten minutes, using exercises from the warm-up section. This helps to dissipate lactic acid and hence to avoid muscle pain.
Never be in a rush during your streching, each move must be slow and relaxed. Never force a strech too hard either as relaxed muscles are easier to strain.
Build up your degree of flexibility over a period of months.
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A good level of fitness is required before you attack the piste.
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| Flexibility |
It is also essential for maintaining flexibility, which can otherwise be lost as part of the normal ageing process or as muscles develop.
Repeat stretches from the warm-up section but this time hold them for 30 seconds.
Stretching should be done while the muscles are still warm, either from exercise or after a bath.
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